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Fresh Off ‘Death To Gays’ Rally, Ted Cruz To Host Anti-LGBT Hatefest In South Carolina
After appearing at an Iowa rally last weekend organized by Pastor Kevin Swanson, who advocates the death penalty for gay people, GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz will host his own anti-LGBT hatefest in South Carolina on Saturday.
Cruz’s “Rally for Religious Liberty” will be held at Greenville’s Bob Jones University, which once famously argued that its racist policies were protected under the First Amendment.
Among the speakers at Cruz’s event will be Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, an anti-LGBT hate group; would-be reality TV stars the Benham brothers, and anti-gay Houston activist Dave Welch.
Right Wing Watch reports:
Just as Swanson believes that “the homosexual Borg is the power in the principality of the demonic world,” a number of the Religious Right activists who will be speaking alongside Cruz in Greenville have claimed that their battle against gay rights is really a spiritual war against Satan. …
Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2015/11/fresh-off-death-gays-rally-ted-cruz-host-anti-lgbt-hatefest-south-carolina/
